How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

“When I discovered Butler’s work, I discovered myself.”

By Jesmyn Ward | December 7, 2022

Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

Sara B. Franklin on the Reading That Mattered Most to Her Family

By Sara B. Franklin | December 7, 2022

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“Please Pretend That I am Dead.” Darcey Steinke on the Long, Complicated Life of Painter Agnes Martin

“I have tried existing, and I do not like it. I would like to give it up.”

By Darcey Steinke | December 7, 2022

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

Featuring Jennifer Egan, Emily St. John Mandel, Ian McEwan, Celeste Ng, Olga Tokarczuk, and More

By Book Marks | December 7, 2022

Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

Shaun Bythell Chronicles His Days as a Bookseller

By Shaun Bythell | December 7, 2022

Allegra Hyde on Addressing the Steps to Solve Climate Change in Her New Novel

Allegra Hyde on Addressing the Steps to Solve Climate Change in Her New Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | December 7, 2022

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Bombay and the Beats: Bridging Two Cities Through Their Poets

By Saranya Subramanian | December 7, 2022

Cherríe Moraga on Writing About Queer Motherhood

By Cherrie Moraga | December 7, 2022

How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet

By Keen On | December 7, 2022

The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

Esther Woolfson in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 7, 2022

The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil

The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil

Luke Dumas Recommends Victor LaValle, Muriel Spark, and James Hogg

By Luke Dumas | December 7, 2022

Talking to Soneela Nankani About the 2022 Best Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks

Talking to Soneela Nankani About the 2022 Best Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks

Discussing The Bangalore Detectives Club

By Behind the Mic | December 7, 2022

Gavin McCrea Reads from <em>Cells: Memories for My Mother</em>

Gavin McCrea Reads from Cells: Memories for My Mother

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | December 7, 2022

In <em>The Super 8 Years</em>, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

Julia Sirmons on Maternal Performance and the Growth of an Artist, Captured in Family Home Movies

By Julia Sirmons | December 6, 2022

Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of A Dangerous Business

By Jane Ciabattari | December 6, 2022

On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s <em>Chess Story</em>

On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story

This Week from the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | December 6, 2022

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